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26WD101116, AI Research Scientist Position Overview As a Senior Research Scientist in the AI Lab at Autodesk Research, you will conduct fundamental and applied research on Motion Foundation Models: general-purpose models that can represent, generate, edit, understand, and reason about motion. The work will initially focus on human and object motion and will extend toward multimodal and interactive settings involving text, trajectories, images, video, geometry, robot observations/actions, and other signals.

You will work with scientists, researchers, developers, and designers across generative AI, computer vision, graphics, robotics, simulation, manufacturing, architecture, and construction to develop new model architectures, representations, training methods, datasets, and evaluations for motion intelligence.

Autodesk's AI Lab is active in the wider research community, targeting publications at CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, and other top-tier conferences. We collaborate with leading academic and industry labs, combining the best of an academic research environment with product-guided research. This role will report to a Manager of Research Science in the AI Lab.

Job Requisition ID # 26WD101116

Responsibilities

Develop new foundation-model approaches for motion generation, editing, understanding, reasoning, and representation

Drive research end-to-end: identify high-value questions, formulate hypotheses, implement ideas, run experiments, analyze failures, iterate, and communicate conclusions

Investigate motion representations and tokenization, generative modeling, multimodal conditioning and alignment, scalable training, post-training, and model refinement





Design rigorous evaluations, benchmarks, ablations, and diagnostics that reveal genuine model progress and failure modes

Build and modify research code, training pipelines, and data pipelines, using contemporary AI coding agents where useful while maintaining ownership of correctness, reproducibility, and scientific quality

Work toward ambitious long-term goals while defining concrete milestones and maintaining a high pace of empirical iteration

Collaborate across a global research team and with academic and industry partners; publish at top-tier conferences and help transfer successful ideas into Autodesk technologies

Minimum Qualifications

A Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Robotics, Mathematics, or a related technical field

A consistent track record of research publications demonstrating experience in applied or fundamental research

Deep knowledge of modern generative or foundation-model methods, such as Transformers, diffusion/flow models, latent-variable models, or related architectures

Strong hands-on ability with PyTorch, JAX, or similar frameworks, including building, modifying, debugging, and scaling research training pipelines; effective use of modern AI-assisted development and coding agents

Excellent experimental judgment:



ability to turn ambiguous research questions into testable hypotheses, controlled experiments, useful metrics, and clear conclusions

Demonstrated research ownership, persistence, and execution: a track record of pushing difficult technical problems through repeated experimentation to meaningful results

Preferred Qualifications

Research experience in human motion, character animation, motion capture, embodied agents, robotics, or other spatiotemporal modeling problems

Experience with multimodal or foundation models combining motion with text, images, video, geometry, trajectories, actions, or other modalities

Experience with learned motion representations or tokenization (for example VQ/VAE-style methods) and generative methods such as diffusion, flow matching, or autoregressive modeling

Research experience with large-scale video foundation models, including video generation, spatiotemporal representations, multimodal conditioning, and scalable training

Experience with reinforcement learning, post-training, large-scale/distributed training, dataset construction, or evaluation infrastructure

Knowledge of 3D geometry, computer graphics, geometric deep learning, physically grounded modeling, or Autodesk-relevant domains

26WD101116, Chercheur en intelligence artificielle Aperçu du poste En tant que chercheur senior au sein du laboratoire d’IA d’Autodesk Research, vous mènerez des recherches fondamentales et appliquées sur les modèles de base du mouvement (Motion Foundation Models) : des modèles polyvalents capables de représenter, générer, modifier, comprendre et raisonner sur le mouvement. Dans un premier temps, vos travaux porteront principalement sur le mouve

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